AXS's 10 Best Albums of 2018



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Album • Jul 13 / 2018 • 88%
Post-Hardcore
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Album • Sep 26 / 2018 • 91%
Alternative Metal Metalcore
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Album • Oct 26 / 2018 • 94%
Electro-Industrial Industrial Rock Synth Punk
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Album • Mar 09 / 2018 • 95%
Synthpop Neo-Psychedelia Art Pop Progressive Pop
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Album • Jun 22 / 2018 • 99%
Experimental Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop
Popular Highly Rated

Though it strains the mind to wonder how, Death Grips manage to get a little further out every time. Lighter but a lot weirder than 2016\'s industrial-adjacent *Bottomless Pit*, *Year of the Snitch* finds the Sacramento trio absolutely in their own orbit, a dissonant burst of hardcore, hip-hop, trance, video-game music, and free jazz with few patterns and fewer precedents. Yeah, it’s intense. Kinda negative too. But it’s also strangely beautiful, filled with collisions of unrelated sounds (the new-age synths of “The Horn Section” or “Linda’s in Custody”) and moments of release (“Hahaha,” “Streaky”) that flash in the murk like diamonds in dirt. This is music that teaches you how to listen to it.

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Album • Feb 14 / 2018 • 88%
Hard Rock J-Rock
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Album • Aug 10 / 2018 • 50%
Contemporary R&B
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Album • Apr 27 / 2019 • 80%
Electropop
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Album • Aug 24 / 2018 • 21%
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Album • Apr 06 / 2018 • 51%
Latin Pop Reggaetón Boy Band